THE NEWS, desta , According to the present outlook the fate of Mrs. Botkin, who is being tried on the _eblrge of murder, will not rest in ths hands of the jury in Ban Francisco until next week, The lozal office of the Wells-Fargo Express Company at San Antonio, Tex,, was robbed ‘of a package containing $60,000, A special committees of the American Economic Association, which closed its ses- sion at New Haven, presented a report on the question of currency reform, A monument to John MeDonogh, the mil- llonaire philanthropist, was unvelled at New Orleans by educational gatherings in that city, In anticipation that the Government will take favorable action on the plan to pay off the Cuban troops by giving them $100 each, the Cuban authorities here have taken steps to secure detailed information as to the number of Cubans who bore arms and are entitied to this bounty if the government decides to pay it, Among the passengers on the steamer China, which just arrived at San Francisco, from the Orient, were Grand Duke Cyril of Russia and his aides, Lieutenants Causeau and Gouse, The Grand Duke, who 5 a cousin of the Czar, is on his way to 8t, Pet- ersburg, having nearly completed a tour of the world. A blaze at Culloden, W. Va., entailing a loss of $6,000, originated in a very peculiar way. Some young lads tied a box of fire- crackers to a dog's tail, when the dog ran “under the store building of 8, B. Blackwell. The building ignited and was burned to the ground, together with the contents. Loss covered by insurance, The seveuth anuual meeting of the Ameri can Jewish Historical Assoclation was held in Philadelphia with the election of officers and the reading of papers. he American National Bank, of Lima, Oblo, was mysteriously robbed of over #18,- 000 in gold and currency. At Alexandria, five miles from Rock Springs, Ala, James Mitchel and ‘Doo MacLellan quarreled over a game of cards, Both drew pistols and fred. MacLellan's shot struck Mitchell in the forehead, tearing off the top of theskull and killing bim instantly. Mitchell's ball struck MacLellan directly over the heart, but flattened itself against a pocket knife, thereby saving his life, Maec- Lellan struck Mitchell over the bead with the barrel of his gun after killing him, At Harrison, Ark., Frank Pace, ex-prose- cuting attorney, and his brother, Henry, met M. L. Aderholiz, a prominent stockman, on the street and a duel ensued, io which Elderholtz was mortally wounded, The trouble grew out of a difficulty a few days ago between Aderhoitz and Captain Pace, father of the brothers, in which Captain Pace was dangerously shot and a by-stander killed by a stray bullet, A special from Hillsboro’, Tex, says: Mrs. Isabel, ber daughter, and Mrs, Malone's infant child were burned to death in their home, near Houston, Tex, The women could be seen in the house, but it was impossible to reseue thsm, though every effort was made, The fire started by the use of kerosene to light a fire. Herman Kiseo, 12 years oid, and Arthur Leedbam, § years, were drowned while skating on thin ice at Harris Pond, Woon- pocket, BR, I. MANUFACTURING PLANT BURNED. One of the Workmen Falls Into Flames and Is Cremated. Birmingham, Ala., (Special, ) Between 1 watchman at the Bemet-Solvay Company's by-product plant at Easley Clty, six miles from Birmiogham, discovered fire raging in the ofl house. Aun alarm was squoded, but the flames spread very rapidly, and soon the main bullding and chemical works of the plant were in flames, and burned quickly. One bundred and twenty-five coke ovens escaped destruction, but the principal butidings of the plant were destroyed, caus- fog a loss estimated at between $150,000 acd 200,000, with no insurance, gous on a high trestle between the coke ovens and the main plant to connect a water hose, lost his life, The trestle burned down behind him, and be fell foto the flames, Clarence Rust, another employe, was badly lars, and began operations last summer, owners reside in Syracuse, N, YX. of the fire is not knows, It is understood that the burned buildings will he replaced at early date, GEN, LAWTON'S NEW POST. Assigned to Service In the Philippines as Second in Command, Washington, D. C. (Special.)—-The War Department bas issued orders assigning Major-General Lawton to services in the Philippines, This assignment is considered one of ex- ceptional importance, as Geoeral Lawton, who was one of the most copspicuous offi- oers io the campaign about Santiago, will be second in command to General Otis, and, In the event of General Otis’ appointment as Governor-General of the Philippines will as- sume military command of the foroes in the Philippines. His new duties will require a combination of nerve and tact, General Lawton has recently been in com- mand of the camp at Huntsville, FIELD OF LABOR, Canada exports apples, Ireisnd has 40,000 mud cabins, Cuba hes 1,200 sugar plantations. Boston is the chief rice market, Loulsiana leads in rice production, Ottawa bas no Sunday street cars, Germany announces zine wall paper, Boone, lows, hasn't a vacant house, Mexiso Oity is to have an eleetrio road. Florida's pineapple erop is worth $50,000, Des Molnes has a seventy-year-old black. sigith. All Centralia (Wash.) stores are open on Sunday. . ar unl, N. C.,, » to have auother cotion The best hotel in San Juan, Porto Rico, charges #2 a day, The consumption of rice in Europe bas more than doubled siuce 1875, A new 05,000-splodie “cotton mill may be established at Talladego, Ala, Of the 25,000 oMelals in Boarlin ns many as 17,000 give their services froe, 2 Mexican farm laborers get 25 cents a day, A Tacoma company will soon ship 800,000 set or more of fir deoking to burg, The W.U. T.U., of Alton, IiL, has sue- seeded In placing a prohibitive on TAKEN BY INSU sms Occupied Iloilo Before Ameri- can Forces Arrived. —— ISSUE NOW. SERIOUS Gen. Otis Expected to Demand the Sar- render of the Capital of Fanay-—Span- iards Retreated to mn Strongaoid in Min. danno—-Gen., Otis Having Difficulty in Mocuring Release of Spanish Frisoners. Wasnixaron, D, C, (Special, )—There has been a good deal of anxiety in official elr- cles over recent events at Iloilo, the capital of the lsland of Panay, in the Philippines, Two official dispatches wore received by the State and War Department, but it was impossible to gather from them an acourste knowledge as to the condition there, It was not even possible to learn whether the lo- surgents or the American forces bad eaptur- ed the place, United States Consul Pratt, at Singapore, cabled tho State Department: ‘Iloilo taken 24th; Spanish fled to Bor- neo," This threw the officials into deeper doult than before. Another telegram stated that the Spaniards had retreated to u strongly fortified town on the Island of Mindanao, This did not agree with Consul Pratt's statement that they flad to Borneo, the north coast of which is a British possession, but It was believed that the Consul was in error on the point, which might easily be the case in view of the distance from his post to liotlo, The fact that the Spaniards had retreated at all was also construed as an Indication that the town was abandoned to the lnsur~ gents, for it is believed that Colonel Rios, the Spanish commander, would have cheer- fully surrendered to the Awerican force, with a view of securing the safety of his men and their ultimate return to Spsin by the American Government, according to the terms of the treaty, Just before noon another dispateh came from General Otis that at ones confirmed the fears of the officials of the War Department as to what had taken piace at licklo, It ap- pears that the American forces had arrived too late on the seene, and that the I[psur- gents had added to the difficulty of the problems already presented by holsting thelr flag over the city, which they have been be sleging for mouths, The news was contaln- ed in the following message from General Otis: “Maanlla, Dee. eral, Washington: Sent fast vessel to liollo on 24th to commuasieate with Spanish General Rios; latter evacual- ed evening of 24th, and Potter 39 hours late; Insurgents took possession of city on 26th, and Potter fousd Aguloaido’s flag fiy- ing. Cannot pow report probable resuits; will not hear from there for four days, as no cable communications, Spanish forces have evacuated all stations in southern isiacds except Zamboangs, Mindianao, by orders, as they say, from Madrid, Oris.” May Raise the Issue at Once. The evacuation by the Spaniards of all the Philippine ports, and, as reported by General Otis, although doubtless inspired by a desire to secure their safety by concen | tration, bas undoubtedly done mueh to com- 7, 1808, — Adjutant-Gen- Colonsl Potter on | plicate the problem already presented the War Department of extending the military jurisdiction of the United States over the ls iands, It will now be necessary to greatly ex- pedite the execution of the original plans, and it may fully be expected that withia two | or three days important events will have bappened in the Philippines, Oficial Instructions, { It is stated on suthority that the Presi | deat has instructed General Otis and Ad- miral Dewey tbat the authority of the | United States is to be maintained at all | bazards in the Philippioes, although every- | thing peaceably is to be done to luduce the | insurgents to recognize the supremacy of this country and lay down their arma. These instructions will cover the case of the lasur- gents who have captured lloilo, Acting un- der the President's orders, it'ls belloved by members of the Administration that the rep resentatives of General Otis will have the American forces march Into the city and take charge in the name of the United States, If the insurgents offer opposition they will be held to ascount without loss of time, KILLED HER TWIN CHILDREN, Young Ohlo Girl Commits Murder, Her Mother and Sister Abetting. Portsmouth, Olio, (Special. }—-Two weeks ago two human bodies were found under an old stump ia a hollow near this city. The remains were those of children, and the mat- ter was kept secret. The Coroner was in. formed, and found 8 verdict charging Miss Rachel Glenn, a girl of twenty, with the wil ful murder of her twin chlidren, and that her mother and sister Sarah alded and abetted in the erime. The Glenns are prominent farmers, The threes women will be arrested at once. The murdered children were about six months old, Stuck His Hend In The Stove. Chicago, Iil., (Special, )—Louls Stack, of 1904 North Marshfield avenue, chose a horri- bie method to end bis life. He lifted a lid from the stove and held bis bead against the glowing coals until he was burned 80 se versely that he was rendered unconscious, A few minutes later he was found by his wile, and eight hours later he died without re- gainisg consclousness, A Practical Joke Froved Fatal, Riverhead, L. L, (Special. )-The village blacksmith at this piace is the vietim of a fatal practionl joke, Karl Kindler, the black. smith, an old man, lived alone in rooms ad- joining his shop, and on Friday evening someone stuffed the chimney holes full of rags ao that the dranght was completely eut off, Next morning Kindler was found un- NENATOR MORRILL DEAD, A] Service in Congress, Wasmimxaron, D, OC. (Special. )-—-Senator Justia Smith Morrill, of Vermont, dled at 1.25 A, M. Tuesday from pneumonia, follows ing an attack of grip. Mr, Morelll was In tits elghty-ninth year and preserved his mental vigor to the last, In the death of Mr, Morrill the Senate lost {ts senior member in point of service and its oldest in age. He had served ocontino- ousiy in the Senate for more than thirty- one years, and he was elghty-eight years old on April 14 last, With the single excep- tion of Hon, Galusha Grow, of the Houses of Repressntatives, he was the only man ia Congress whose congressional career began prior to the beginning of the civil war, and be had the honor over Mr. Grow in that his songreassional service had been continuous, covering in the Senate and House combined almost forty-four years, Mr, Morrill was a native of Vermont and was first alooted a member of the House from that State us a member of the Thirty. fourth Congress, taking his seal at the first assembling of that body after March 4, 1856 He was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty- sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth aod Thirty-ninth Congresses, and was in 1867 elscted to the Senate to succeed Hon, Luke P. Poland. Hoe had held his seat in the Sen- ate since that date without interruption, having been elected six times successively, Previous to entering Congress Mr. Morrill had been engaged in mercantile and agri- cultural pursuits, and mach of his publie lite has been devoted to the upiliting of in terests dependent upon those lines of bus- iness., He had received in his youth an academic eduention and was from his early days a close student of public affairs, At the beginning of the civil war Mr. Mor- rili's practieal business traluing brought him forward as a man of national reputa- tion, He was the author of the Morrill tariff act of 1881, which was the basis of all the tariff legislation of war times. Ia 1564 he became chairman of the committees on ways and means, the principal committes of the House, and at that eritical time of ce pecial importance, After entering the Senate Mr. continued to give his attention largely to financial and commercial questions, and during the greater part of his term of ser vice he was a member of the committees on finance, which committee deals especially with these subjects. He first became chalir- man of this committee in 1877, succsediog Benator Sherman when the latter entered the cabinet of President Hayes, and he held this position continuousiy sfter that date, except during the Forty-sixth and Fifty. third Congresses, when the democratic party controlled the Beuate, and during those In- tervals he continued at the head of the re. publican representation on the committee, In recent years he delegated the greater share of the detalls of the committee work to the youoger members of the committes, but there had been low times when be was not a regular attendant upon the committes meetiogs, and many instances are related of his surprising activity in directing the af. fairs of the commliites up to the Inst. He had at his command « wealth of informa- tion concerning the tariff and financial questions. Mr. Morrill was the real father of the scheme for the construction of a bulidisg for the Congressional Library, and to him and Benator Voorhees who early jolued him in pressing this question upon Congress, Is the splendid library building a monument, Very near to his heart also was the plan for the erection of a bullding for the United States Supreme Court. He had been press- ing & measure looking to the construction of such a buliding for many years and had on three different ocecatlons prevalled upon the Henats to pass bis bill for this purpose, His last appearance in the Benate was on the 10th instant, when he made a sposeh of balf an hour's duration in advoeasy of the Supreme Court bulidiag bill, He then pre- valled upon the Senate to pass the bill in the face of some opposition. To Benator Morrill probably more than any one else was the present splendid en. dowment of most of the State agricultural colieges due. He was the author of the or. iginal bill giving ald to thess collages from the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and he had never refused them ihe ensour- agement of his assistance, Senator Morrill opposed the annexation of the Hawallan Islands to the last, and be was understood to bo averse to the exercise of any sort of American sovereignty over the Philippioes, He was an indefatigable worker, and, while not an orator, spoke gracefully and foreibly. His great age and high position caused bim to be universally esteemed by the other members of the Senate, CASHIER SHOT rRESIDENT. Arrest Made In a Case that Has Puzzled Salt Lake People Salt Lake, Utah, (Special. }-The mystery surrounding the shooting of ex-Banker J. M. Stout, two weeks ago, has been nearly cleared up, Cashier Johns, of the Utah Na- tional Bank, wis arrested on the charge ol doing the shooting and his hearing oontin. ued until Btout sufficiently recovers to ap pear in court At the instanee of United States Commis. sioner Twomy, a warrant was sworn out 1c arrest Stout on the charge of having pre sented to the bank examiner certain false entries cn the books, while President of the Utah National Bank, and for unlawfully misapplylog the fands of the bank, a ENGINE BUILT IN A DAY, Morrill a Actual Time Consumed Was But Twenty. one Hours, Thirty Minutes. Altoona, Pa, (Special.}—All records for fast engloe bullding was broken In the ma chine shops of the Pennsylvania Raliroad Company In this city by workmen unde Forman Amos Davis. At 1.50 o'clock Tues. day afternoon work was commenced and at poon Thursday the engine was complete and ready to be taken Into the roundhouse, A SOAR CABLE SPARKS, It is reported near Devil's Island, where the prison of Captain Dreyfus is situated, that Dreyfus has been removed to Paris on a conviet tr rt, James Dunham Slew Wife, Relatives, and Two Others. sr —— BELIEVED TOBE CAUGHT Howard of Eleven Thousand Dollars for His Capture Known by a Number of Allinson Strangled [His Wife, Brained Her Mother and s Servant with an Ax, Shot Her Brother and Stepfather, Columbus, Ohio, (Speclial,)—~There is un- dor arrest in this city a man whom the po- lies have strong reason to believe is James C. Dunham, for whom there is a reward of £11,000 offered, dead or alive, at Ban Jose, Cal, He was picked up here by Detective Louis Wolf, of the loeal foree, as asuspleions character, he having offered a lot of goods for sale at about 20 per cent. of the actual value, He gave the name of Harry Wilson when arrested, but io court he sald his right name wis Harry Chureh, and that be was born io Sacramento, Cal., from which point he started out two yesrs ago. At different places hers before his arrest he gave the names of H. V, Morris, E. H. Ross, Harry Lewis, and Harry Howard, He has been in this cliy for about a month, all the time un- der survelliance, Mrs. Church is hers in the city, but she gays she knows very little about her hus- band, having met bim but about two years ago, and does not even know his business. They were married in Illinois, The eorime for which Dusnbam, whom Church is suspected of being, is wanted, was a most atrocious one, At a lonely farm- house, Lotween San Jose and Los Gatos, Banta Clara County, Cal, on the night of Tuesday, May 26, 15908, James C. Dusham slow all the occupnats of the residenos save one, his baby boy. His wife, her mother, ber stepfather, her brother, a man and maid servant wers sacrificed, They wore all mem- bers of the family of K.P. MeGiiney. The deed was carefully planned, Dunham came to his wife {ou the night and gave her a chance to write a message to those whom she believed would be spared. Then his fingers fastened around her throat, and the woman was strangled. Next Minnie Schess- jer, a servant, wee sials, her skull belong cleft with an ax. Mrs, MoGiincy shared her fate, The three murdered men were at Camp- bell wheo the women were killed, Col, Mo Gilney came fit, As he opesed the door be was met by a bullet, He turned to seek safety in flight, and James K. Wells, his stepson, rushed to bis assistance, Wells was shot through the heart and lostantly killed, Jumping over his body, Dunbaui pursued the older man, He caught him at a near-by cabin and suded his misery. tobert A. Brisco, who sheltered MeGliney, was also shot to death, Dusham escaped, despite strenuous efforts to capture him, There is a differance of oploion among those who have seen Church, regardiog his resemblance to Dunham, the Callfornis mur- derer. At first ginnoe there ia & strong like ness between Church and the photograph of Dunbam io the possession of the police, This was first noticed bf one of the detect. ives, whose curiosity had been aroused Ly the alr of mystery that seemed to hang over the prisoner, Church was shown the pioture In the pos. session of the police, sud at a first glance sald: “Woy that looks like Texas Jack.” When questioned more closely about Texas Jack be was unable to give a very good ac- count of him, but simply said he knew him as 8 circus hand. The smile which played about bis mouth whes looking atthe picture was a peculiar one, and further excited the suspicions of the officers, Chief of Police Kelly is of the opinion that the prisoner is not Dunham for the reason, chiefly, that the pileture of Dunham shows him to bave a square jaw, while that of Church is somewhat polated., In the ab- sence of a more minute description of Dun- bam he does not gaderiake 10 say, positive. ly, bowever, that the prisoner is not the Califorain murderer, A photograph of Church will be forwarded, with a deserip- tion, to Ban Jose, Cal, M188 MERCEDES GARCIA DEAD, Remains to be Taken to Cuba With Those of Her Father. Thomasville, Ga, (Special, )-—Miss Meroe des Garcia, daughter of Gen, Calixto Gar- cla, died at 5 o'clock Tuesday evening, at the Masury Hotel. The young lady, with the rest of the Garela family, arrived here two weeks ago, and suffering from a severe lung trouble, has been conflued to her room ever since, steadily growing worse, until the end came, not nnexpeciedly. So seri. ous has been ber condilion ever since the arrival of the family that It was deemed best to withhold from ber the news of her fath- er's death, so she died In ignorance of this sorrowful event, Col, Carlos Carola, her brother, arrived Monday from Washington, The body is to be carried back to Havana at the same time that the General's remains leave this country, and itis probable they will go on the same warship, the use of which has beens tendered by President Me- Kinley. The body bas been embalmed, and will be foterred here until the floal arrange. ments have been perfected. The stricken family are receiving sympathetic attentions from all of the guests of the hosteiry. CAPT, TOBIN COMMITS SUICIDE, Fired a Bullet Ente Hic Mouth, Penstrat- ing Spinal Column, Knoxville, Tenn., (Special )--Capt, John M. Tobin, until recently Quartermaster of ths First Brigade of the Division at Camp Poland, coumitied sulelds by firing a pistol ball into bis mouth, The bullet passed through bis spinal column killing bim In. stantly. The deed was committed In Capt. Tobin's room in the Palace Hotel, He was missing and a search for him revealed his dead body, exposed on his bed. A bisok- ened pistol la his band told the story of the Capt, Tobin was formerly a Boston man, but be is believed to have coms here from Washington. His relatives in Doston have been advised of the suicide, He has been on aoe NOTES AND COMMENTS, THe latest theory Is that all death is suickde; that a man who takes care of his health can live as long as Le desires, There {& In France a eertain resent ment of American agricultural compe- tition, though thix is by no means so extensive or so active as in Germany. Alrships seldom cowe to that point where they have wings, much less use them. This 18 due to the money in- vested in them generally taking wings first, At present four-fifths of New York's inhabitunts are of foreign birth or parentage and hardly a tenth are the Revolutionary American stock. It Is not surprising, is at this Yorker. moment no typieal Nev newspaper that a man gages #1 house-—for three, five or seven years, renewable at the husbands pleasure, This idea was once discuss ed in Parliament. Bellamy Storer, counsel at Brussels believes that the rate of the “ree State is faster than that in any other part of the world, Its commerce has increased more than 300 per cent. in three years, and rail ways now under construction will give growth. Progress Congo “It is not field Republican, chance we owe often” The Bpring we have a to repay for the debt to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, but Aunt’ just translated for the of the Athenian public, ting a tired of Bound' and ‘Antigone. gays “that Greece ‘Charley's has been benefit which “Py ie is get t1 little ymetheus that England Egypt, and the sea, A new Clive of Africa is to-day building an empire which, many think, val India itself, while at Fashoda an expedition France Canada. India, command of It was from snatched th He may ni ronceived to solace Freneh pride lis fresh and Gallic suscer resulted In a wound upon “New York,” says American, tre in the world. It cash, directs amounts The ‘is the greatest money controls more undertakings tivity of other place in of the wor extends to her the season greatness cont to grow.” We Encyclo the following brief and Interesting ography “M« King the first Egyptian dynasty, who built in troduced luxury and was subsequently hippopotamus.” That man gets for setting a bad If Menes had never intro- inue find In Chambers’ nes, “the first of Memphis, made foreign conquests is what example. tol 4 ign have been satisfied with simpler food Mr. the engineer who fin it ished York and Brooklyn ridge In accordance with the plans of his father, its former designer, gven a solemn warning to the ities that it is at present overloaded and oversiralned. He says the cables themselves never Roebling, the New has author will give way, but the That CXOPRNIYTEe fearful dis anchorage by loads, would mean A law has just been promulgated in |, lishment of 2 Hebrew agrarian colony on the estate of Baron Horace Guens burg, at Dshenan Abadin Bessarabia The estate which covers an about 1.350 acres, has been parcelled in agricultural pursuits, the settlers being exempted from the payment of taxes during the first four years of their residence. In many parts of the Tonquin are Roman Catholicism. The wa id verted to missionaries are them Latin, that they may be able to mass and other services. The quences is that French who are unable tongue, but are sufficiently acquainted with Latin, hold converse with natives In the language of Clcero-a sufficiently curious spectacle, conse in each of the last seven decades the average yield of wheat per acre in France probably higher than in any other country. Such a fact indicates the gocret of France's enormous wealth and prosperity, despite all the losses she has sustained and all the burdens imposed upon her in recent years, If the land of the United States were as carefully tilled as that of France, it would produce enough to feed the whole world, and to spare, Official figures just to hand show that the population of every European country goes on increasing rapidly: and that during the past ten years this increase has been at the rate of nearly tem per cent. The means of mantaining the people are not increas. Ing mn Mke ratio. At the begnning of the present century the populaton of Europe was put by Levasseur at 175. 000,000, In 1880 It ‘was 220,000,000, Tn 1860 it was 200,000,000, and in 1800 it was 850,000,000, It is now 880,000. 0000 and the continuance of the pre. sent rate of increase will make It 885. 000,000 In 1000, ten per cent, increase over what it was in 1800, officials all 101d, but they have re-cre- ated the political conditions of the (8 land, which of old were abominable, and it is pow peaceful, orderly and prosperous. Taxes have been light ened, and are collected by a rational and not at all oppressive system; every industry has been encouraged and improved, and a complete organ- ization of public schools has been formed and put in operation. Eng- land has done there what she has done wherever her colonial authority has extended. That is, she has Introduced good government in the place of bad, improving thus the morals and material condition of the people, with injury to none and benefit to the world at large as well ag to the oom n:nnities under her rule and guardian. ship. She out a handsome mattern for us to follow, and after a we shall no doubt be able to sgual our exemplar, says the New York Tribune. When the British have pushed on Fashoda Albert Nyanza, as they are now doing and will complete- in a few there , will be open a continuous of Alexandria to Cape Town, of African Continent. Open a strictly modern map of Africa and grhool manners, has cut praetice 10 do weeks, line communi- the compare it with a map in the geographies of foriy years ago. a half blank rinted of the continent was space with “Unknown it. Then done. ACTOR sed has One may go by steamer and rail from Al exandria by gteamer to Albert Nyanza: by road to Victoria Nyanza: by ACTORS the latter lzke; by road to Lake Tans ganvika; by ier dows : by road that lake and the River: by rcad around Lower Wire the Y//wer 1 Zambesi to Sena: by to Omdurman: thence steamer Tal ‘ sien IARC, to Lake Nyassn: down Falls to Sleamer dows rt Ralishury: by post-coach to ula- yi by railroad to Cape Town, thousand and w traversed in eighty-five days ! r ght) ] distance Is about six it can Thus Cape eR wo hundred and fifty m 3 the dream of a railroad from the Delta toward realization. In an interesting report just issued by the British Foreign Office, Mr. Powell, British Consul has paper in to makes progress on any, in whi » wet forth. awake odd. r trad- wide commercial cation In competition with othe ing nations and that the saudy of mod- ern languages is being fostered anden- all the country. In Britain it is believed that the industry the last couraged over Great great success of German in superiority hniecal education in save, is not the view by close acquaintance with the facts on They attribute it to the of general education that Germany bas enjoyed for many years rather than to the superiority of com- reial education. Mr. Powell thinks that numercial of the scince 1873, and especially decade, js due to the of commercial and fe Germany; but this, Ld 3 he those best able io judge th SOE $1 pot high state me the « ENCCPER tither the Germans is the cause than th effort the wonderful strides lately made by them in educa. tion. for the growth of their trade has aromsed imperial, municipal, and ed- ucational anthorities to of this kind of of commercial a sense of the training for a value 2 An increase of insanity and death in the penal institatons of Pennsylvania result, according to the Pitts. Dispatch, of less than a year's trial of the convict labor law, which fa®bids the employment of prisoners at anvthing which will compete with the product of outside labor, and pre- vents the use of machinery in the pris. on It has not been possible to find wark for all the prisoners under the restrictions of the law, and the phy sical and mental condition those confined in their cells has rapidly de- teriorated. In the Riverside peniten- tinry, the Dispatch says, “the hospital list has swelled to a greater number than ever known before. the death list wag greater, there never was a meet i= the of cation being made for the transfer of unfortunate to the insane asy- by the wholesale it was necessary to keep a large number of men who were not allowed to work under the closest surveillance consianily.,” Ag a par of the abandoned workshops as a ree reation room. Unemployed convicts in od two hours in this room, during which time they may walk or read. When first permitted in thix room, af. ter a long period of confinement, many of the convicts, although robust when they entered the prison, are unable, beecanse of physical weakness, to make the circuit of the room more than twice, a distance of less than one tenth of a mile, Molding Marble. Adams and Nicholson of “ill university, Montreal, Can- ada, Puve discovered that marble can be pressed into a desired form with: out crumbling or losing its solidity if sufficient pressure Is used. Heavy wrought-iron tubes were used In mak. ing the experiments that resulted in the discovery. The marble was fitted tightly into the tubes and the emis plugged with steel Ingots,
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